culture and memory
How can a historical site, such as an extermination camp, be preserved - without turning it into an "amusement park"? This is the dilemma we are dealing with, in a discussion with the participation of Prof. Jan van Pelt from the School of Architecture of the University of Waterloo in Canada, Dr. Orit Shachem Gober, chief curator of the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsut. .
Prof. Van Pelt is an expert in forensic architecture - a multidisciplinary field of research that combines architecture, technology, history, law and human rights. He led the academic team that formulated the Auschwitz Conservation Plan, and his ground-breaking research formed the basis of The Evidence Room, an installation first presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. The project involved a powerful reconstruction of objects used in the process of forensic analysis of the architecture of The well-known concentration and extermination camp.